On the day the banquet was held, Chinatsu and Gojo Satoru, dressed in pure white kimonos, stepped into the dedicated black sedan, heading towards the large joint banquet of The Big Three Families.
While the car was driving, Chinatsu and Gojo Satoru looked out the windows on their respective sides, gazing outside.
The world seen by a Jujutsu Sorcerer is different from the world seen by ordinary people. In the world that ordinary people cannot perceive, there is an existence called a "Cursed Spirit" hidden from the world.
Cursed Spirits are illusory existences formed by the condensation of human negative emotions and the Cursed Energy leaked by humans.
Cursed Spirits can harm humans, but humans cannot harm Cursed Spirits, and eliminating these Cursed Spirits is the job of the Jujutsu Sorcerer.
These Cursed Spirits, like Jujutsu Sorcerers, also have ranks, and conventional human weapons cannot inflict damage on Cursed Spirits.
However, assuming human weapons could harm Cursed Spirits, their threat level could be roughly referenced as follows—
Grade 4: A wooden baseball bat is enough to handle it.
Grade 3: A handgun provides minimal reassurance.
Second Grade: A shotgun can barely manage.
Grade 1: Even a tank cannot resolve it.
Special Grade: Cluster missile carpet bombing is also useless.
Under the Rikugan / Six Eyes, although some low-level Cursed Spirits concealed themselves well, they still could not escape the gaze of Chinatsu and Gojo Satoru.
However, most of the Cursed Spirits on the streets were Grade 4 or Grade 3. Cursed Spirits of this level posed little threat to humans in the short term, at most causing people to feel like they were being watched or being touched when no one was around.
"What is it? Are you interested in these Cursed Spirits? There is still some time before the banquet begins, so stopping now to take care of a few low-level Cursed Spirits is more than enough time."
The Great Elder, sitting in the passenger seat, saw that both of them were paying attention to the Cursed Spirits occasionally appearing on the street, and he smilingly suggested stopping the car, but this proposal was rejected by both Chinatsu and Gojo Satoru.
Chinatsu: Come on, these Cursed Spirits are right on the main street. I haven't learned [Blue] yet. If I want to exorcise these Cursed Spirits, I can only use fists wrapped in Cursed Energy. If pedestrians on the street see me stupidly punching the air, my intelligence will be questioned.
Gojo Satoru: Exactly, exactly.
The Great Elder: Uh, I am speechless.
The Great Elder coughed awkwardly. It was true that ordinary people couldn't see Cursed Spirits, and conspicuously exorcising Cursed Spirits on the street in this situation would likely make them look like idiots.
The black sedan continued to drive forward and soon arrived beneath a five-star hotel. Today, in order to host this banquet, the entire building was occupied solely by people from the Jujutsu World; there were no ordinary people present.
This was not a private booking, but rather, this hotel was property of The Big Three Families of the Jujutsu World, and it was often used for large and small meetings.
Many vehicles had already gathered beneath the hotel, and most of the people emerging from the cars were an elder accompanied by several teenagers.
Inside the building, the Head of the Kamo Family had already arrived. Although he had no interest in the banquet, attending early was a required courtesy as one of the hosts of the event.
Not long after, Zen'in Naobito of the Zenin Family also arrived at the banquet hall from outside.
With Zen'in Naobito's arrival, many people who had already arrived at the banquet greeted him with smiles, but Zen'in Naobito simply waved his hand and casually dismissed the crowd.
The Zenin Family is the most feudal and arrogant of The Big Three Families. To them, all Jujutsu Sorcerers outside of The Big Three Families are trash, and even the Gojo Family and the Kamo Family are...
Zen'in Naobito, maintaining a stern expression, scanned the banquet hall and quickly spotted the Head of the Kamo Family standing in a corner of the room.
At the same time, the Head of the Kamo Family also looked towards Zen'in Naobito, and while displaying a standard, formulaic smile, he waved his hand at Zen'in Naobito.
"Naobito... long time no see."
"Indeed, Old Kamo Family Head."
The two walked over to each other. Zen'in Naobito casually picked up a bottle of red wine from a nearby table and flicked the bottle cap off with his fingers.
"Care for a drink?"
"No, thank you."
"That's a real shame."
Zen'in Naobito poured himself a glass and began drinking by himself.
If it weren't for the rare, high-quality liquor available at this level of banquet, Zen'in Naobito truly would have just sent someone else to attend in his place.
Speaking of which, Zen'in Naobito was no ordinary figure. In the setting books, he was rated as the strongest Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer, making his immense strength self-evident.
However, Zen'in Naobito did not feel proud of this strength, because he knew that he had already reached the end of the road toward becoming stronger.
A Jujutsu Sorcerer's strength is eighty percent dependent on innate talent. The fifty-something-year-old Zen'in Naobito already knew that he would never be able to enter the domain of "Special Grade," and furthermore, his family had failed to produce a child with the "Ten Shadows Technique," which left him extremely depressed.
Looking at Zen'in Naobito's miserable appearance as he drank by himself, the Old Kamo Family Head beside him really wanted to tease him.
The Zenin Family and the Gojo Family had a poor relationship, but their relationship with his Kamo Family wasn't much better; the three families were essentially three superficial brothers.
When twins were born in the Gojo Family back then, Zen'in Naobito heard the news and burst out laughing right there and then.
Twins were considered an ominous symbol in the Jujutsu World, and Zen'in Naobito laughed heartily, driven by schadenfreude.
However, before he could laugh for long, when he heard that both twins possessed the Rikugan / Six Eyes, his laughter instantly stopped dead, and the smile on his face became incredibly stiff.
"Damn it!!!"
After Zen'in Naobito realized the truth, he immediately slammed the wine flask he was holding onto the ground, his entire face turning red like a ripe tomato.
The Old Kamo Family Head opened his mouth, but the teasing words he had intended to say to Zen'in Naobito ultimately remained unspoken.
Because he understood that if he teased him like that, Zen'in Naobito would definitely retort angrily with a strained face.
"Our Zenin Family hasn't produced a child with the [Ten Shadows Technique], but don't tell me your Kamo Family has already given birth to a child with [Blood Manipulation]?!"
This... truly left him speechless.
The Kamo Clan Head closed his mouth, which he had previously opened. Their two families were currently in the same predicament, and there was only one way for them to escape this situation: to quickly produce children who inherited their respective family's top-tier Cursed Technique.
But there was no use rushing something like having children. It wasn't like they could replace the women in their families and rush to give birth.
Frustration... they could only endure the frustration...